Civic Trust Among Young Immigrants

Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and carried out in collaboration with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco of UCLA, the Civic Trust among Young Immigrants project explores how immigrant youth perceive, trust (or distrust), and engage with key civic institutions. In 2012, we conducted a pilot study involving in-depth interviews with first- and second-generation Latino and Asian immigrant youth (ages 18-25) living in Massachusetts and New York. We examined their sense of trust in four important civic spheres: justice, education, religion, and the news media.